(CNN) -- City commissioners in Sanford, Florida, voted Monday to reject the proposed resignation of their embattled police chief, who has been under fire for the handling of the probe into Trayvon Martin's death in February. Chief Bill Lee has been on paid leave since March 22, a day after the commission expressed a lack of confidence in him because of the case. He remains so after the commission's decision, with Capt. Darren Scott continuing to serve as acting chief. George Zimmerman, who has said he killed the 17-year-old Martin in self-defense, was not arrested after being questioned by police the night of the shooting. Arrested weeks later after a special prosecutor was assigned to the case, he was released from jail early Monday and hours later entered a not guilty plea.

With the 10% cash payment customarily made to secure bond,
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George Zimmerman's family needed $15,000 for him to make bail.


Pope Francis called on the church to adapt to 'changing conditions of society' yesterday following a conference that rejected changes that would have softened the church's stance toward homosexuality and divorce. As he beatified Pope Paul VI who implemented the Second Vatican Council's vast changes, Pope Francis said 'God is not afraid of new things'. Liberal reforms to church doctrine which fell short of the two thirds majority needed for success in the meeting would also have opened the way for Catholics who are divorced and remarried to receive communion, the central sacrament of the church. Pope Francis (pictured yesterday at the Vatican) spoke of the failings of opposing wings of the Church following the end of the Rome synod on family life which left supporters of gay rights and divorcees disappointed

Divorced and remarried
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Catholics were denied hopes of a reform that would approve their taking communion without any annulment of their first marriage.


By Stephen Adams More A&E departments will have to close for safety reasons as they are weeded out under a tough new hospital inspection regime, the new boss of the health watchdog has admitted. Some hospitals ‘will find it difficult’ to prove their A&Es are up to scratch as they come under renewed scrutiny by inspectors from the Care Quality Commission, the regulator’s chairman David Prior warned. His comments in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday raise the possibility of more fights over closures in the next two years, which could be increasingly difficult for the Government in the run-up to the General Election.

The CQC wants to have inspected all of
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England’s 161 major hospital trusts by 2015.